Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Legacy Awards went very well. I think Sonia was proud that such a cross-generation of poets connect to her work.

I'm just now shaking loose her poems from my inner ear. They just fizzled and would not leave. There's one poem of hers that simply loops everytime I think of it.


Personal Letter No. 3

nothing will keep us young you know
not young men or women who
spin their youth on cool playing sounds
I say these lines to myself trying to unpack the wisdom of youths being spend on cool playing sounds. It's really a beautiful poem just as so many of her poems in her first book Homecoming.

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